Nonilex#SCOTUS on Thurs will issue more end-of-the-term rulings, potentially including whether #Trump is immune from prosecution in his federal #ElectionInterference case, whether #Jan6 #insurgents may be charged w/ #obstruction & whether #FederalRegulatoryAgencies should have their #powers reduced. Wed, the court inadvertently posted a ruling it has not yet announced that, while #litigation continues, would allow emergency #abortions to stabilize patients in #Idaho where #abortion is banned.
The first #SCOTUS ruling is in Ohio v. #EPA, which weighed the legality of a major federal initiative to improve public health by reducing #smog-forming #pollution from #PowerPlants & #factories that blows across state lines.
In a 5-4 decision, #SCOTUS stayed the #EnvironmentalProtection Agency’s “good neighbor” rule, which is meant to reduce harmful industrial pollution that blows across state lines. This comes after the court struck down another major EPA rule in 2022.
The second #SCOTUS ruling is on Harrington v. Purdue #Pharma. The high court is reversing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, blocking a controversial bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s #opioid crisis in exchange for protecting the #Sackler family that owns the company from future lawsuits.
The third #SCOTUS decision of the day is from Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, on in-house judges for the Securities and Exchange Commission. With the liberals dissenting, the court ruled that when the #SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for #securities #fraud, the defendant is entitled to a jury trial.
The decision in SEC v. Jarkesy is a significant win for #conservatives, who have long been chipping away at the #power of #RegulatoryAgencies & the so-called administrative state.
Yup. There it is. The fourth #SCOTUS ruling of the day is the #Idaho emergency-#abortion ruling that was *inadvertently* posted yesterday. The #SupremeCourt allows — for now — #EmergencyAbortions to stabilize patients in Idaho, despite the state’s strict #AbortionBan. The high court ruling applies while #litigation in the matter continues.
On the #Pharma #sackler #opiod case:
Edward Neiger, who represents thousands of victims who stood to benefit from the #PurduePharma bankruptcy settlement that the #SCOTUS blocked, called the decision “a major setback for the families who lost loves ones to overdose and for those still struggling with addiction.” In a statement, he said that “victims have been abandoned by every branch of the government.”
The #SCOTUS decision in Ohio v. #EPA deals yet another blow to the #Biden administration’s ambitious #environmental agenda. The #SupremeCourt has already struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules on #ClimateChange & #water #pollution. Notably, Justice Amy Coney Barrett dissented against Thursday’s ruling, joined by the court’s liberals.
Bottom line: 4 bad decisions from the #conservative #FarRight wing, #Trump picked, #LeonardLeo picked, #FederalistSociety, #HeritageFoundation #corrupt #DarkMoney #SCOTUS.
Can we stop calling them supreme?
You’re in luck if you’re a fan of #dystopian fiction.
#SCOTUS, #Republicans, #DarkMoney, #Corporations, etc don’t want #FederalAgencies able to set or enforce #regulations.
No #SEC regs? #Rich get richer & a get a #peasant class to serve them.
No #EPA regs? Corps #pollute the #earth, heedless of #PublicHealth, #ecosystems, or the #planet. As long as they cut costs for #shareholders.
Go ahead & #bribe public ofcls just do it after they give you what you want (or make it look that way).
Oh yeah, #women will be pregnant or dead, & all those children won’t have #financial, #medical or #education programs to support them.
People will be hooked on #opioids w/no #health or #social services to help. And the drug makers don’t need to face #legal repercussions.
Tonight, I’d like #Biden to ask, “do you want the next generation to use the dollar as currency or do you want them bartering for #water? Because that’s what will happen under #Trump’s & #Project2025’s total disregard for the #ClimateCrisis. The world will be on #fire, & everyone will be desperate for clean drinking water.”
#SCOTUS #law #FederalAgencies #regulations #DarkMoney #BidenHarris2024 #Fight4AFuture
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/water
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Steve Hersey@Nonilex
I prefer my dystopian fiction to be *fictional,* thanks all the same.
It's not fun when dystopian reality outruns dystopian fiction (as Charles Stross has remarked with reference to post-Brexit Britain).
Lot⁴⁹@Nonilex Hey it worked in 1876.
Amoshias@Nonilex is the Purdue pharma decision a bad one? Haven't read it but I thought this was a complex situation, trading off money for the families but the Sacklers get a much bigger benefit.
@Amoshias it’s bad because other drug makers can look at the Sacklers & say, they got off. Their risk / benefit analysis changes. Will they make more in net profit now that they don’t have to factor in the costs of liability?
@Nonilex but also because the Sacklers themselves killed tens of thousands of people and this bankruptcy ends their personal (civil) liability, right?
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Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud@Nonilex Who? The clerics?
atticus1956I call them passé, antiquated, obsolete, archaic, and so obviously, nefariously biased that the words supreme ⚖️ justice is less meaningful than the words supreme pizza.
Steve Loughran@Nonilex does this mean that it’ll be Ok for Alito’s neighbours to use EPA-banned pesticides to clean up the entrance to their planned nuclear waste dump. Now is the time to find out.
Or are those neighborhood covenants indented to enforce segregation still overriding everything else?
Or are those neighborhood covenants indented to enforce segregation still overriding everything else?
@Nonilex So big oil has bought SCOTUS.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@Nonilex There are several accounts that post the SCOTUS decisions. But they just post the decisions. I appreciate that I can get a summary of what the decision actually means from your account.
@Nonya_Bidniss thanks! Yeah background & context are crucial.
@Nonilex SCOTUS makes it easier for wall street to cheat and defraud. Justices are corrupt.